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The Makioka Sisters (1959)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- TODOROKI Yukiko, KYO Machiko, YAMAMOTO Fujiko
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka. After their father's death, the fortunes of the family decline and their large mansion passes into other hands...
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The Gay Masquerade (1958)
- Director
- ITO Daisuke
- Cast
- ICHIKAWA Raizo, KATSU Shintaro, AOYAMA Kyoko
Kikunosuke is one of the street rogues led by Nipponzaemon whose ostensible trade is pawnbroking. However, their real business is blackmail and in order to deceive people on one occasion Kikunosuke disguises himself as a beautiful girl and on another...
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The Lowest Man (1958)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, NOZOE Hitomi, NAGAI Tomoo
"Homeless. Convicted several times. Age, 22." This is Saburo's personal record, when he is arrested for abduction. Having deceived Hideko, a country girl, he is arrested by Detective lgawa and is sent to prison. Saburo's mother died while he was a c...
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The Ladder of Success (1958)
- Director
- YOSHIMURA Kozaburo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, WAKAO Ayako, NEGAMI Jun
Directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura, one of Japan's greatest directors, with a fine cast, including the fabulous Machiko Kyo, this spectacular film treats of the Japanese dance, and the life and loves of Akemi, a dancer. In 1942, during an air-raid on a ...
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Ambush at Iga Pass (1958)
- Director
- WATANABE Kunio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, ICHIKAWA Raizo, HAYASHI Naritoshi
Lord Honda is on his way to Edo guarded by famous for his bravery, whose wife Mine is also in the long procession and who looks forward to meeting her father Yukie, and her brother Kazuma, in the Shogunate capital. However, Yukie is murdered and the...
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The Swishing Sword (1958)
- Director
- MORI Kazuo
- Cast
- YAMAMOTO Fujiko, ICHIKAWA Raizo, UMEWAKA Shoji
Rokubei Kagiya, a wealthy merchant in Edo, had been executed seven years before through a false accusation brought by Magistrate Doki and the wealthy merchants Echizenya and Ryogokuya. After obtaining the wealth of Kagiya, they plan to obtain more r...
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My Son's Revolt (1958)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, YANAGI Eijiro, TODOROKI Yukiko
Shinichi is the only son of a famous businessman, Karoku Shindo whose real mother Yurie killed herself in his childhood. He believes that it was his father's love affairs which drove his mother to her death, and he hates him. However, his father regr...
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The Judo Champ (1958)
- Director
- EDAGAWA Hiromu
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Kenji, SHINAGAWA Ryuji, WAKAO Ayako
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to...
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The Precipice (1958)
- Director
- MASUMURA Yasuzo
- Cast
- SUGAWARA Kenji, YAMAMOTO Fujiko, NOZOE Hitomi
Set in the magnificent scenery of the Japan Alps the story opens with Uotsu and Kosaka inching their way up the northern side of Mount Maehodaka in the midst of a snow storm. Thirty feet from a good foothold a strong gust blows up, the nylon rope giv...
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The Long Nose (1958)
- Director
- IMAMURA Sadao
- Cast
This is the story of Indian elephants; a bull, the leader of a herd of twenty, a cow and a cub. The cub lives happily with its parents, and every morning they go to a river to bathe and return to their jungle for food. But all the leaves and twigs o...
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Chance Meeting (1958)
- Director
- SHIMA Koji
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, KITABAYASHI Tanie
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her pi...
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So This Is Love (1973)
- Director
- HIROSE Minoru
- Cast
- AMACHI Mari, MORITA Kensaku, TANAKA Kunie
A newcomer - a handsome young man named Shunji - brings a sensation to the young female workers in the toy manufacturing company. He wants to supply children with toys that give children dreams. He asks a charming illustrator named Mari to cooperate:...
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Professional Killers: Assassin’s Quarry (1973)
- Director
- WATANABE Yusuke
- Cast
- OGATA Ken, HAYASHI Yoichi, YAMAMURA So
Baian is outwardly an acupuncturist but really one of the professional assassins of Edo. He is a hired killer but kills only those people who are better off dead, doing good but poisoning the world around them. One day, Otowaya, the leader of the ass...
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Living Together (1973)
- Director
- YAMANE Shigeyuki
- Cast
- YUMI Kaoru, NAKA Masami, OSHIDA Reiko
Kyoko, works for a leading advertising agency, while Jiro is an illustrator. They meet in the street, are attracted to each other and decide to live together. They do not intend to marry; they just want to live together while they are in love. Kamij...
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Cobra (1974)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, WAN Ping, NARA Fujiko
A Dietman candidate kills a girl while trying to break with her. Chujo, a minor enterprises union leader, who intends to use the candidate for his own purposes when he becomes a Dietman, cannot afford a scandal. Detective Komura in charge of this mur...
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Castle of Sand (1974)
- Director
- NOMURA Yoshitaro
- Cast
- TANBA Tetsuro, KATO Go, MORITA Kensaku
A man of about 60 is found murdered in the yard of a railway station in Tokyo. Two detectives are assigned: Imanishi and Yoshimura. The victim is Miki, a retired policeman in Shimane Prefecture near the Japan Sea. Miki had been a model policeman for...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True (1972)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, BAISHO Chieko, YACHIGUSA Kaoru
There is time even for Tora, a happy-go-lucky rover, a drummer by trade, to feel melancholy. Conversing with a lady in a rural community, he begins to feel homesick and wants to return to his uncle, aunt and sister, gentle people who live in his home...
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Tora-san’s Dear Old Home (1972)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, YOSHINAGA Sayuri, BAISHO Chieko
Another adventure of Tora-san (Kiyoshi Atsumi), the itinerant street peddler, who dreams that his sister (Chieko Baisho) and brother-in-law (Gin Maeda) are victimized by a local gang and then goes back home. Back home, he finds a 'Room for Rent' sig...
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Journey into Solitude (1972)
- Director
- SAITO Koichi
- Cast
- TAKAHASHI Yoko, KISHIDA Kyoko, YOKOYAMA Rie
I (Yoko Takahashi), a fatherless girl student, age sixteen, left my wanton mother and boring school life, taking 9,000 yen from my mother's purse. Under the bright sun, in the fresh air, I was free and very happy, but impressed by the harsh reality o...
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Home from the Sea (1972)
- Director
- YAMADA Yoji
- Cast
- IGAWA Hisashi, BAISHO Chieko, RYU Chishu
Innumerable small islands dot the Inland Sea and on one live a married couple, Seiichi (Hisashi Igawa) and his wife Tamiko (Chieko Baisho) with Seiichi 's father (Chishu Ryu) and their two little children. They earn their living by carrying rock on a...
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My Darling Witch: A Kiss Before Death (1972)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- FAN Wen-Chiao, MORITSUGU Koji,
Lill "Darling Witch" (Fan Wen-Chiao) is a young and beautiful singer. To save her friend Hanae from the forced marriage proposed by a management consultant, she goes to his apartment for pictures of love-making with herself. Next morning the consulta...
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Le Rendez-Vous (1972)
- Director
- SAITO Koichi
- Cast
- KISHI Keiko, HAGIWARA Kenichi, MIKUNI Rentaro
Akira (Kenichi Hagiwara) takes a seat in a train opposite an attractive middle-aged woman, Keiko (Keiko Kishi), both going to the same town in northern Japan. She is accompanied by an older severe-looking woman, Fusae (Yoshie Minami), who watches her...
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My Voiceless Friends (1972)
- Director
- IMAI Tadashi
- Cast
- ATSUMI Kiyoshi, MORITSUGU Koji, BAISHO Chieko
Tamiji Nishiyama (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns from war with last messages from his fallen comrades to their wives, sweethearts and parents. The A-bomb had killed his family in Hiroshima and he lives in Tokyo with a whore (Mayumi Ogawa), who unknown to h...
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Chase That Man (1972)
- Director
- MASUDA Toshio
- Cast
- TAMIYA Jiro, WATARI Tetsuya, BAISHO Mitsuko
To stamp out a huge crime syndicate is detective Shida's ambition. But Takegami (Tetsuya Watari), a young leader of the gang always stands in the way. Takegami kills the boss of the rival gang and is arrested and Shida (Jiro Tamiya) believes a good o...
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Lill, My Darling Witch (1971)
- Director
- INOUE Umetsugu
- Cast
- FAN Wen-Chiao, MORITSUGU Koji, TAKIDA Yusuke
Lill is the nickname for a young and charming camera-woman (Fan Wen-Chiao) working for a magazine. One night, she is called to a bar by the president of her company (Yusuke Takida) who tells her that his wife (Etsuko Ikuta) is having an affair with h...
